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Computers and civilization

  • At Home with Computersby Elaine Lally

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2002; US$ 109.95

    Presents an examination of the role computers play in our domestic lives. This book deals with questions such as: do computers cause or help to resolve arguments? What role does gender play? Who spends the most time with the computer? And how does the importance of home computers change as we move from childhood through careers to retirement? Please... more...

  • The Best of Verity Stobby Verity Stob

    Springer 2005; US$ 24.99

    This volume aims to appeal to anyone who works in the IT industry, from Windows to Linux, and from C++ to Java to Delphi to Visual Basic. While the humour has a technical ring, it should be appreciated by anyone who understands the industry. more...

  • Blown to Bitsby Hal Abelson; Ken Ledeen; Harry Lewis

    Pearson Education 2008; US$ 24.99

    Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can?t escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to?the benefits are too seductive. The technology has enabled unprecedented innovation, collaboration,... more...

  • Bricklin on Technologyby Dan Bricklin

    Wiley 2009; US$ 29.99

    In a world that divides us, technology creates connection. Cell phones, e-mail, digital cameras, personal Web sites—they all join us, however tenuously, to what we value. Is connectivity what we’re willing to pay for? Should technology be our servant or a tool that helps us do other things? What can we really learn from Napster? What would... more...

  • Communities and Technologies 2005by Peter van den Besselaar; Giorgio de Michelis; Jenny Preece; Carla Simone

    Springer 2005; US$ 139.99

    This book includes 23 papers dealing with the impact of modern information and communication technologies that support a wide variety of communities: local communities, virtual communities, and communities of practice, such as knowledge communities and scientific communities. more...

  • Communities and Technologies 2007by Charles Steinfield; Brian T. Pentland; Mark Ackerman

    Springer 2010; US$ 159.99

    This book covers the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and communities - both physical and virtual. Community technology applications are studied in many contexts. The book demonstrates the dynamic and interdisciplinary nature of evolving communities and technologies scholarship. more...

  • Comparative Information Technologyby Joseph Zajda; Donna Gibbs

    Springer 2009; US$ 99.99

    One of the most significant dimensions of globalisation has been the rapid development of information and communications technologies (ICTs). This work offers a critique of the nexus between ICT and its impact on society, individuals and educational institutions. more...

  • The Computerby Darrel Ince

    OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 9.99

    There is a companion web site asssociated with the book (http://vsicomputer.wordpress.com/). It contains chapter summaries, links to relevant material and posts about items of news relevant to the book's contents. Computers have changed so much since the room-filling, bulky magnetic tape running monsters of the mid 20th century. They now form a... more...

  • Computer Ethicsby Robert N. Barger

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 36.00

    Teaches computer ethics for computer science or philosophy undergraduates. Includes a worksheet of key questions used in solving computing dilemmas. more...

  • Computer Mediated Communicationby Crispin Thurlow; Laura Lengel; Alice Tomic

    SAGE Publications 2004; US$ 74.00

    This book offers students a task-based introduction to Computer-Mediated Communication and the impact of the internet on social interaction. Aimed primarily at communication studies students, this book would also be useful as a sourcebook for students of media, sociology, psychology and English Language Studies. more...